Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.

My happiness comes from doing all I can for my students. To help them, what else could there be?

People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.

I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.